Quote of the week"That's not really anything that we have any control over. We're not in the NFC."-- Bill Belichick, on the Patriots' potentially going 11-5 yet missing the playoffs

Oh, smack! Bill Belichick is ripping the NFC! But you know, I have to trust Belichick's opinion here. The man knows him some bad football. The Patriots not only got to play four games against the NFC West this season (combined record: 20-40), but four against the AFC West, too (21-39). So he has seen a lot of awful football. Yet, despite that laughably easy schedule, he still managed to motivate his team to lose only five (or possibly six) times. Genius!

"Dreith said I hit Sipe too hard. I hit him as hard as I could. Brian has a chance to go out of bounds and he decides not to. He knows I'm going to hit him. And I do. History."- - - Jack Lambert, after referee Ben Dreith ejected him from a game for knocking out Browns QB Brian Sipe.